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Fiction

I Have Touched You

August 10, 2010

by Gregory Sherl Terrible Love I smoke a hand rolled cigarette and cough. I have to relight it before every hit. Girl #4 doesn’t wear her pink wig at night. She wears nothing at night. She is pale and I am grateful for my small bed, her slim wrists. Tonight my bed is empty. Too [...]

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Recommended Reading From Online Magazines

August 6, 2010

“You can’t trust anybody or anything nowadays.” We hear people say that all the time, and we look around, and it’s hard not to agree with them. You need proof? Just ask the bass fishermen ready to hook and hang this guy by the balls. More? Go talk to these fans about that thorny asterisk [...]

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It’s Not Becoming

August 3, 2010

by Nathan Leslie 1. My boyfriend, Tim, is six months older than I am. I admit it: I love being with an older man. Tim knows how to take care of me. He’s an investor. He also owns a consultant company, but he doesn’t like talking about that. That’s fine. He says it’s “classified.” I [...]

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Recommended Reading From Online Magazines

July 30, 2010

I’m speaking to the Dopamine in your brain: you want some good fiction. You want some mind-fucking, synapse popping, caffeine-induced, sleep-deprived, better-than-sex (well, sort of) flurry of letters and sounds and phrases that will set your myelinated axon ass on fire, make you drip-drip-drip down, and stick it to your Master, and make him wipe [...]

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In The Wild

July 27, 2010

by Kris Saknussemm One of the activities that was always popular was a noisy spectacle known as The Partner Game. It was run on the first morning after the children had settled in (although “settled” wasn’t a word that anyone involved would’ve used). It got a lot of initial hyperactivity out of their systems — [...]

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Recommended Reading From Online Magazines

July 23, 2010

A friend of ours recently returned from Mexico City and presented us with the figurine you see above. That’s right. Your eyes do not deceive you. It’s a pig fucking another pig. We didn’t know what to say, of course, except, “Thanks,” and “Wow! Look at the detailed, intricate artistry,” and “It must have taken [...]

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The Failure Six (Ch. 1)

July 20, 2010

by Shane Jones The first failure, Antun The messenger was given an address by way of pushed note under his wooden door. The messenger had been dreaming of owls and capes. In his dream he saw a revolver go off inside the owl’s cape. The revolver made a coughing sound and the wounded owl opened [...]

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Recommended Reading From Online Magazines

July 17, 2010

Look out your window. You must admit, it’s a beautiful day. See them? Way over there. Past that pair of trysting haikus and the crowd of obese novels all screaming for Dostoevsky to come out and play. Just keep going. Over Alphabet Hill. Let your eyes wander deep into the Forest of Words. Now, look [...]

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Twenty-Two

July 13, 2010

by Amy Glasenapp Twenty-two year old Virgil sits with Anette, the second girl he’s ever been with, at a table in the back corner of her favorite sushi restaurant, the one he hates. It’s a busy place, and a line for the unisex bathroom starts to form right next to their table as soon as [...]

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Cactus

July 6, 2010

by Foster Trecost I counted telephone poles sticking up from the ground and the seconds in between them. The old highway cut straight through the sand, and it seemed the road would go on forever. No curves. No hills. Just poles. I’m not sure when she changed. After kids, I suppose. She didn’t smile very [...]

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